Best Way To Place A Cake Layer On Top Of Another?
Decorating By MessiET Updated 5 Sep 2006 , 2:40pm by MessiET
My Wilton 9" pans fit one inside the other - the sides are not perfectly straight up. So when my cakes bake, the edges of the cake are slightly slanted. How do I put one layer on top of another if the sides are not completely straight? My last cake looked like an hourglass 
and I had to fill the gap with lots of BC. I did not want to cut around the cake since I thought that would be a pain to frost without getting a bunch of crumbs. Any ideas?
I use the 9in pans for my 'plain' cakes and I don't have that problem, the recipes I use shrink back from the sides of the tin and always seem to shrink back straight (weird!). I think your only answer is to hide the slant with frosting as you've been doing, that's what I do if I have uneven sided cakes!
If you do have to cut away to get straighter sides, freeze the cakes and then crumb coat while it's still frozen. Let it come to room temp and then ice as usual. Less crumbs to deal with this way. Just something to try...
That would be so frustrating! I would defiantely get a hold of Wilton.
I know that the 9 inch pans that most people buy (non decorators 
) are often slanted on the sides. I wouldnt have thought that wilton would have made a pan like that. So I am not sure if it is a defect or it is just the type of pan. I think the best solution would be to treat yourself to a new pan!!
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